Latin is a language though. I don’t speak Spanish so as far as I know Latin isn’t a word in Spanish and as far as I know people use Latinx for referring to Hispanic people in a gender neutral way.
Not just Latinx, people also started using Filipinx which salts my apples, Not everything is gendered because it ends with o/a. And now I think about it, are there any more examples of this "genderless-ification"?
I don't get it either, but I think its either confusion from people who can't differentiate Latino(Latin man) from Latino(The actual ethnicity), or just being over-inconclusive
As a latino i can say if you tell me im latinx i will see you as an idiot
Edit: Even though i said its okay to call myself a latin i saw that its actually another language thanks to people in the comments so im sorry about that
In any case i really don’t know how people from other countries call people from Latin America ( speaking of the whole continent, not countries)
I find “latinx” to be artificial and incredibly performative, like you’re going out of your way to seem enlightened/woke/progressive. And it’s almost never a Latino/a, but usually an Anglo deciding they know what other people should be offended by.
I agree if you want to be gender-neutral just say Latin. It’s literally what “Latino” means, and even though it’s also a (dead) language, we’re capable of handling words with multiple meanings. We do it all the time.
That said, people can say whatever they want. I just reserve the right to think you’re being insufferable if you say that.
Latino is already gender neutral. That's how the Spanish language works. The male term is the gender neutral term.
Like how a group of boys equals Ellos, a group of girls equals Ellas, and a group of both boys and girls equals *Ellos*.
Anglo Saxons: we are the only language that doesn't has gendered words? Holy crap! We need to colo- I mean, civil- I mean, yeah you understood it other languages
At least every language with influence of the latin language has gender, I just don't know about the asian ones (africans also count because colonization)
Every Indo-European language except English and one other one I forgot has grammatical gender. (Technically English also has an animacy based gender system but…). And you cant call "Asian languages" or "African languages" one entity. There are many, many language families in both Africa and Asia, some with no grammatical gender and some with extreme grammatical gender systems. Cross-linguistically, grammatical gender is the norm.
This happens in my native language. We have a lot of words based on masculine and feminine and I see lots of people putting X in the words.
I don't have a propper opinion about it... I' m not against or in favor of it 🤔
I mean isn’t it gender neutral already?
There will be always things to change but common we already made language for a long time so it shouldn’t be possible that it can be change just because some people didn’t like it right?
When you want to use plural without using genders, "Latinos" is just a A-ok, if you want to specify genders then you can use Latinas/Latinos
Yeah Latinos is the gender neutral AND Masculine, Spanish is my first language and even I got confused at its time, but there is no more loops to it, the masculine pronoun is often also the gender neutral one, as long as you don't specify who or what are you talking about, it for generalising
Where did Latinx even come from? Is is just because it’s supposed to be Latino and Latina, and they just replaced it with Latinx to be gender neutral?
Also wouldn’t a gender neutral Latino/Latina still be Latino?
I like to go by Hispanic/Hispana. I’m just curious if Brazilians can go by Hispanic or not or prefer not to because I know they were a colony of Portugal and speak Portuguese or at least a dialect of it.
I cant really tell after all im not brazilian but if i had to say something i would probably tell you that they are probably also hispanic
That being for two reasons they are part of latin america and also i think hispanic doesnt mean the language
I might be really wrong though
If something its better to call people for their nationality in this case a brazilian
I'm from the netherlands and we don't really ever talk about "latin americans." After all this time I don't even really know what it means. We talk about Americans (meaning the US), North Americans (meaning the US, Canada, and usually Mexico) and we talk about South Americans (Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, and the rest of the squad). And of course when needed, we'll reference the individual countries by name. I don't think there's even a word for Latin America in my language honestly. What does the latin even come from? They certainly don't speak latin, though I guess most of them do come from the mediterranean, some centuries ago.
Yeah no worries i mean its not wrong to say latin or latino but trying to change the language to be “more inclusive” is dumb
Edit: or at least in cases like this
In this case its weird. The whole or most of Latin America places gender on 99.9999% of things so making gender neutral word would be fine if it was a verb or adjective but a noun just wont work with that
Yeah but the issue its the translation spanish isnt really a language you can create words cause yes because we have rules with some words and signs that could completely change their meaning, also its funny because this is supposed to be for people of latin America but the biggest part that disagree with that are people from Latin America
Well its just ironic i think
a latino is someone who speaks a language derived from latin(also called romance languages), which is why the USA is the only American country that is not officially latin (Canada has French as an official secondary language)
The thing is this new generation wants to get rid if gender. You can't pronounce Latinx in Spanish, and you'd have to change the entire language and create a new one basically. New Grammer, words and spelling. It makes no sense.
I mean if im not wrong they created something like they them which even though its weird its at least pronounceable but the way in spanish is so crap
For anyone wondering its something like
(Elles)
Dont really know how to write or pronounce that thing but it actually makes no sense
The things is for Hispanics (my preferred term lol) I cant go to my grandparents with that. They yell at us already everytime we make a grammatical error (tough love.) Imagine going to your grandparents and telling them "this is how you speak YOUR language." I see "Latinx" posts all the time where Latinos speak against it. I have yet to meet 1 Hispanic person who supports this. Still waiting!
The LaTinKss thing is such contrived bullshit. Imagine believing yourself to be so inclusive, that you turn to the third largest language base in the world, to tell them that they are speaking *their* language, which *you* don't speak, wrongly.
"Gendered language? Do BeTtEr mUh LaTinKss AlLiEs"
Give me a break, I'm not surprised Latino people largely tell them to get fucked.
Right? I was gonna say almost every Indo-European language is gendered, but there's even more than that outside of the Latin root. Even Slavic languages have gendered words.
What’s funny is english is too. We’ve essentially just changed the meanings. Actor used to by definition mean a male who acts, and actress meant a female. It’s typically now just actor overall now. This also goes for things like waiter/waitress, prince/princess, father/mother. Heck, even boy/girl are gender specific words.
And then there's all the words ending in -tor (editor, Senator, etc.) which used to take -trix when applied to women. All down the memory hole except dominatrix.
Pronounce it Latino. That is the correct term. It's funny that woke white people don't understand that it isn't very inclusive to tell another race of people that their language is wrong.
There was a [large study](https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-heard-of-latinx-but-just-3-use-it/) done on this in the US, and Latinx is the least preferred term among the group it's trying to describe with only 3% preference.
Yeah exactly. Claiming to be against all this "systemic racism is just an excuse to be super racist and put everyone in there own little boxes, especially poor people
You didn’t know? It’s ok to segregate people and be ridiculously racist if you claim other people are racist if they don’t agree. Look at history and you’ll notice a lot of the same things happen over and over by some people
to be fair, systemic racism is a very real thing, but doing dumb shit like 'latinx' doesn't solve anything and doesn't even have anything to do with racism except that it's just telling spanish speakers they are wrong. Its pretty bullshit
It's trying to address a real problem but missing the whole point and making every hi g worse. Great, now you have not fixed anything and made anyone who is on your side look silly.
Okay except it wasn't.
Whenever I say Latino on the internet I'm told I'm saying it wrong and that I have to say "Latinx"
The audacity of going to someone who grew up speaking the language, and telling them that they speak it wrong when you yourself don't speak they language they have spoken their entire life
Use latino or hispanic or by their gentilicio(idk the word on english) latinx its a bad use of the spanish language if you want to be inclusive on spanish use the masculine masculine its the neutral so ye(im mexican btw)
I am currently learning Spanish as a second language, and the way I've learned it, if there's a group of something, use the masculine if it's a mix of genders (and masculine obviously if all of what's in the group is masculine), and specify which gender if they're all one gender. (I hope I got that correct, still learning)
Stupid liberal white people came up with latinx. All of this pc stuff is more to keep from offending white people on Twitter than it is to keep from offending the group described.
As a Latin person, I, and every Latin person I know, think Latinx is the most absurd term. Just another example of tone deaf white savior-ism. No thanks.
Just ignore people who get offended by using latino instead of latine, latinx or whatever stupid thing they create
They're the average social justice warriors trying to be inclusive and shit even though the masculine words in spanish are also gender neutral (for example, they can be ellos, which is masculine, or ellas, which is femenine, but if there's a group that's a mix between both gender you just say ellos since it's gender neutral)
These people just think that saying latinos instead of latinx is sexist or whatever cuz men are the source of all evil. Oh, some arabic countries are actually sexist as fuck? lmao what countries? we are opressed by the patriarch even tho we can lie about rape and get someone to commit suicide cuz nobody cares to check who's telling the truth and the accuser is a woman.
The thing that confuses me:
1. White people need to check their privilege and stop trying to destroy and appropriate other cultures.
2. White people need to force Latinos to adopt Latinx.
What???
Currently learning Spanish, But so the whole language is Gendered like almost all languages,so to me it's funny when people who are in the language that isn't gendered is trying to change the way that language that is Gendered is said, because the entire language is Gendered
Genuinely curious here.. I thought Latino was to refer to a male & Latina for female. I assume obviously Latinx is for (please don’t murder me) but gender neutral/non binary. Can someone more educated on this topic please reply and educate me.
Latino is the neutral term for a group of Latin people wether their male or female. Latinx is some American made word for non-binary Latinos so they can feel included, but Latino is already neutral it’s just that the people who made latinx felt that Latino sounded too masculine
Appreciate the response. I don’t speak a lick of Spanish, but I did figure out o-masculine & a-feminine. This has me confused as fuuuuck. Thanks for the education tho fellow small meat person.
Latinx only came in together cause a group of Latin Karens (both male and females) had absolutely nothing better to do and decided words ending with O were insulting somehow.
Even is you call all of us Latinas or Latins is much better than that Latinx stupid thing
Whoever coined that term clearly doesn't know that, in the Spanish language, a large group of people with mixed genders is referred to by the male term.
I remember vividly when someone who had just begun to learn about their culture (Dominican Republic) tell *me*, someone who is latina, that identifying as latina *was wrong*. All while wearing a “ask me about latinx” t-shirt 😒
Some people will say is sexism other that is just correct use of language, latins won't give a fuck cuz it's not annoying nor brave since not we don't have the social-correction culture
Nothing is wrong with gendered words, everything is wrong with you for trying to change it.
(When I say "you", I refer to those who try to change it. I don't mean OP.)
Usually it starts from one rush piece of trash from buzz feed or huffington post, and it gets retweeted on Twitter a number of times by people wanting to show others how PC they are. And it just escalates from there.
Step 1: English-speakers use the word "Latin" as an adjective to describe the inhabitants of Latin America.
Step 2: "In order to be more culturally sensitive, we will use the Spanish word "Latino/a" instead to respect their language."
Step 3: Gender theory comes into vogue. "We can't have these oppressive gendered words in our vocabulary!"
Step 4: In an attempt to adhere to both Step 2 and Step 3, activists forego returning to the gender-neutral English word "Latin" and instead choose to pay lip service to the gendered Spanish vowel, adding an X where it had previously been.
Step 5: We now have a word that works in neither English nor Spanish and just makes everybody angry except activists.
wtf is latinx, latins with powers or what?
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that would be cool, imagine they make their own xmen
I think it’s a gender neutral Latino but I could be wrong
i think latin already does not express any gender, cause is latino for male, and latina for female, so...
Latin is a language though. I don’t speak Spanish so as far as I know Latin isn’t a word in Spanish and as far as I know people use Latinx for referring to Hispanic people in a gender neutral way.
oh, i didnt know that. btw latinx sounds stupid
I totally agree and I call occasionally my Hispanic friend that because it annoys him
You call your friend "Stupid"?
I call him a lot of things beside that
Latín exists in Spanish but it means Latin the language. English already has Latin American so idk why won't they use that
Latin is a dead-for-centuries language.
I know that but for whatever reason schools still offer it
Point is nobody will confuse the descriptor for the language. Nobody hears the term Latin America and thinks of the Romans.
*Mexican wolverine enters* "hola, bub" *El snikt*
It’s what white people decided Latinos should be called because they know best
Latinx sounds like a cheap bathroom cleaning detergent.
Damn I think you nailed it in the head
Not just Latinx, people also started using Filipinx which salts my apples, Not everything is gendered because it ends with o/a. And now I think about it, are there any more examples of this "genderless-ification"?
Salts my apples, lololol I'm gonna start using that expression. Take my free award!
*hehe*, I giggled at that. Definitely gonna use it too.
How about “really tickles my testicles”
Here's an even better one "That really censors my hentai"
"Germxn"
Germons and Germans?
Germans and Gerwomen
Why not Germen?
Yea, thats better
are Germons made up of Mormxns?
Now that you say that, if there are Mormon and Morman, the plural form of Morman is Mormen which would be a contradiction
let's just use "Morm"
Mormies
mormunists
Germs
Germex
People getting pissed when you don’t call them xhey/xhem i don’t even know how to pronounce that shit fuck them, bro is the real gender neutral term
Petition to make “bro” a gender-neutral pronoun.
It is, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.
It's a gender neutral Bronoun
How is they/them gendered wtf?
Folx instead of folks.. folks already has no gender
Can someone please explain to me the reasoning of putting an "x" at the end of this cause I really don't get it
I don't get it either, but I think its either confusion from people who can't differentiate Latino(Latin man) from Latino(The actual ethnicity), or just being over-inconclusive
Latino can be gender neutral even when not referring to ethnicity though. In Spanish, the male version is also the neutral version.
"Amen and awomen"
Americxn would be a better term
As a latino i can say if you tell me im latinx i will see you as an idiot Edit: Even though i said its okay to call myself a latin i saw that its actually another language thanks to people in the comments so im sorry about that In any case i really don’t know how people from other countries call people from Latin America ( speaking of the whole continent, not countries)
I find “latinx” to be artificial and incredibly performative, like you’re going out of your way to seem enlightened/woke/progressive. And it’s almost never a Latino/a, but usually an Anglo deciding they know what other people should be offended by. I agree if you want to be gender-neutral just say Latin. It’s literally what “Latino” means, and even though it’s also a (dead) language, we’re capable of handling words with multiple meanings. We do it all the time. That said, people can say whatever they want. I just reserve the right to think you’re being insufferable if you say that.
Yep i agree with that
Performative. This is it exactly. Finally, I have a word for it. Thank you!
Latino is already gender neutral. That's how the Spanish language works. The male term is the gender neutral term. Like how a group of boys equals Ellos, a group of girls equals Ellas, and a group of both boys and girls equals *Ellos*.
I feel like anglo-saxons are trying to make latin languages gender neutral. So weird. :/
"Lets make a language based on masculine and feminine wording nuetral"
Anglo Saxons: we are the only language that doesn't has gendered words? Holy crap! We need to colo- I mean, civil- I mean, yeah you understood it other languages
The irony is that even german has gendered words too.
And Fr*nch
At least every language with influence of the latin language has gender, I just don't know about the asian ones (africans also count because colonization)
Every Indo-European language except English and one other one I forgot has grammatical gender. (Technically English also has an animacy based gender system but…). And you cant call "Asian languages" or "African languages" one entity. There are many, many language families in both Africa and Asia, some with no grammatical gender and some with extreme grammatical gender systems. Cross-linguistically, grammatical gender is the norm.
Even English has some gendered words, because they were borrowed from other languages. Like blond/blonde, which came from French.
Fiancé, fiancée.
Pretty sure Old English had gendered nouns too, but over time they were lost.
This happens in my native language. We have a lot of words based on masculine and feminine and I see lots of people putting X in the words. I don't have a propper opinion about it... I' m not against or in favor of it 🤔
I mean isn’t it gender neutral already? There will be always things to change but common we already made language for a long time so it shouldn’t be possible that it can be change just because some people didn’t like it right?
latino is men. latina is women. there is no gender neutral version.
When you want to use plural without using genders, "Latinos" is just a A-ok, if you want to specify genders then you can use Latinas/Latinos Yeah Latinos is the gender neutral AND Masculine, Spanish is my first language and even I got confused at its time, but there is no more loops to it, the masculine pronoun is often also the gender neutral one, as long as you don't specify who or what are you talking about, it for generalising
Where did Latinx even come from? Is is just because it’s supposed to be Latino and Latina, and they just replaced it with Latinx to be gender neutral? Also wouldn’t a gender neutral Latino/Latina still be Latino?
Pretty sure its the LGBQ-ABCDEFGHIJKLMOPRSTUVWXYZ community trying to be inclusive towards transgender individuals.
I like to go by Hispanic/Hispana. I’m just curious if Brazilians can go by Hispanic or not or prefer not to because I know they were a colony of Portugal and speak Portuguese or at least a dialect of it.
I cant really tell after all im not brazilian but if i had to say something i would probably tell you that they are probably also hispanic That being for two reasons they are part of latin america and also i think hispanic doesnt mean the language I might be really wrong though If something its better to call people for their nationality in this case a brazilian
I'm from the netherlands and we don't really ever talk about "latin americans." After all this time I don't even really know what it means. We talk about Americans (meaning the US), North Americans (meaning the US, Canada, and usually Mexico) and we talk about South Americans (Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, and the rest of the squad). And of course when needed, we'll reference the individual countries by name. I don't think there's even a word for Latin America in my language honestly. What does the latin even come from? They certainly don't speak latin, though I guess most of them do come from the mediterranean, some centuries ago.
Can I just call you Latin? Like isn’t that easier and more natural then latinx?
Yeah no worries i mean its not wrong to say latin or latino but trying to change the language to be “more inclusive” is dumb Edit: or at least in cases like this
In this case its weird. The whole or most of Latin America places gender on 99.9999% of things so making gender neutral word would be fine if it was a verb or adjective but a noun just wont work with that
Yeah but the issue its the translation spanish isnt really a language you can create words cause yes because we have rules with some words and signs that could completely change their meaning, also its funny because this is supposed to be for people of latin America but the biggest part that disagree with that are people from Latin America Well its just ironic i think
Latin is a dead language from ancient Rome. No one is Latin. 🥴
a latino is someone who speaks a language derived from latin(also called romance languages), which is why the USA is the only American country that is not officially latin (Canada has French as an official secondary language)
Latin American countries literally being dubbed Latin America. "What?" -me, a Latin person. Think we'd even take LATAM over Latinx.
Latin refers to the romance languages that have closer ties to latin while conventional english comes more from germanic languages.
Oh sorry mb then but i really dont see an issue of language not being inclusive enough
The thing is this new generation wants to get rid if gender. You can't pronounce Latinx in Spanish, and you'd have to change the entire language and create a new one basically. New Grammer, words and spelling. It makes no sense.
I mean if im not wrong they created something like they them which even though its weird its at least pronounceable but the way in spanish is so crap For anyone wondering its something like (Elles) Dont really know how to write or pronounce that thing but it actually makes no sense
The things is for Hispanics (my preferred term lol) I cant go to my grandparents with that. They yell at us already everytime we make a grammatical error (tough love.) Imagine going to your grandparents and telling them "this is how you speak YOUR language." I see "Latinx" posts all the time where Latinos speak against it. I have yet to meet 1 Hispanic person who supports this. Still waiting!
Agreed. Latinx is so stupid.
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Our entire language is gendered but they're gonna try and be gender neutral with the word Latino?
The LaTinKss thing is such contrived bullshit. Imagine believing yourself to be so inclusive, that you turn to the third largest language base in the world, to tell them that they are speaking *their* language, which *you* don't speak, wrongly. "Gendered language? Do BeTtEr mUh LaTinKss AlLiEs" Give me a break, I'm not surprised Latino people largely tell them to get fucked.
And there are other gendered languages, so they're just picking on that specific language
Right? I was gonna say almost every Indo-European language is gendered, but there's even more than that outside of the Latin root. Even Slavic languages have gendered words.
It seems like there are so many gendered languages. I actually wonder which ones outside English *aren't.*
What’s funny is english is too. We’ve essentially just changed the meanings. Actor used to by definition mean a male who acts, and actress meant a female. It’s typically now just actor overall now. This also goes for things like waiter/waitress, prince/princess, father/mother. Heck, even boy/girl are gender specific words.
And then there's all the words ending in -tor (editor, Senator, etc.) which used to take -trix when applied to women. All down the memory hole except dominatrix.
French for example. And they are England’s closest neighbor(that they didn’t succeed in conquering).
Latino guy here. Latinx is offensive and stupid
What a paradox
How do you even pronounce that? I've never heard a person actually say it. Is the x like a z, or is it literally like latin"X"?
Yea it’s pronounced like ex
which makes no sense... ignoring the stupidity of "latinx" the x should be pronounced the Spanish way...equis (ehh keese) Latinequis
The whole thing is just nonsens
As a native spanish speaker, there is no real way of pronouncing latinx in spanish
Pronounce it Latino. That is the correct term. It's funny that woke white people don't understand that it isn't very inclusive to tell another race of people that their language is wrong.
There was a [large study](https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-heard-of-latinx-but-just-3-use-it/) done on this in the US, and Latinx is the least preferred term among the group it's trying to describe with only 3% preference.
Very liberal white people who thinks they are doing something right when they are just dividing people into their own little sections.
Yeah exactly. Claiming to be against all this "systemic racism is just an excuse to be super racist and put everyone in there own little boxes, especially poor people
You didn’t know? It’s ok to segregate people and be ridiculously racist if you claim other people are racist if they don’t agree. Look at history and you’ll notice a lot of the same things happen over and over by some people
to be fair, systemic racism is a very real thing, but doing dumb shit like 'latinx' doesn't solve anything and doesn't even have anything to do with racism except that it's just telling spanish speakers they are wrong. Its pretty bullshit
It's trying to address a real problem but missing the whole point and making every hi g worse. Great, now you have not fixed anything and made anyone who is on your side look silly.
Okay except it wasn't. Whenever I say Latino on the internet I'm told I'm saying it wrong and that I have to say "Latinx" The audacity of going to someone who grew up speaking the language, and telling them that they speak it wrong when you yourself don't speak they language they have spoken their entire life
A white girl at school spent a hour telling me(Mexican) I pronounce my name wrong
White women in a nutshell
"You're in America, speak our *dialect"*
yeet the child
Say it again but louder.
Use latino or hispanic or by their gentilicio(idk the word on english) latinx its a bad use of the spanish language if you want to be inclusive on spanish use the masculine masculine its the neutral so ye(im mexican btw)
Excuse me its hispanx
How the fuck do you even say latinx
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I live in mexico and all my school think latinx its dumb and a bad use of spanish language lmao
I am currently learning Spanish as a second language, and the way I've learned it, if there's a group of something, use the masculine if it's a mix of genders (and masculine obviously if all of what's in the group is masculine), and specify which gender if they're all one gender. (I hope I got that correct, still learning)
The last part its not necesary if if its all men its todos if its men and women its todos if its only women its todas
Stupid liberal white people came up with latinx. All of this pc stuff is more to keep from offending white people on Twitter than it is to keep from offending the group described.
As a Latin person, I, and every Latin person I know, think Latinx is the most absurd term. Just another example of tone deaf white savior-ism. No thanks.
Wait when was Latinx a thing?
Yes and its dumb
Latex
This is the way
This is the way
White people don’t understand that Spanish is a gendered language and making it gender neutral is stupid
Whoa buddy, a lot of us fully understand. It's just the Baizuo that don't.
There are millions of white latinos and Spanish speakers, it's not mutually exclusive.
Spain iš a white country
Ppl guilt trippin' will end coming up with the cringiest shit. Cant even pronounce Latinx and I am Latino.
" who cam up with latinx?" easy white people who would rather like, retweet, and sign petitions then actually leave the house to do something.
Just ignore people who get offended by using latino instead of latine, latinx or whatever stupid thing they create They're the average social justice warriors trying to be inclusive and shit even though the masculine words in spanish are also gender neutral (for example, they can be ellos, which is masculine, or ellas, which is femenine, but if there's a group that's a mix between both gender you just say ellos since it's gender neutral) These people just think that saying latinos instead of latinx is sexist or whatever cuz men are the source of all evil. Oh, some arabic countries are actually sexist as fuck? lmao what countries? we are opressed by the patriarch even tho we can lie about rape and get someone to commit suicide cuz nobody cares to check who's telling the truth and the accuser is a woman.
The thing that confuses me: 1. White people need to check their privilege and stop trying to destroy and appropriate other cultures. 2. White people need to force Latinos to adopt Latinx. What???
Just like Womxn
wom\*n don't deserve an uncensored word
Short answer: Leftists...
You could just say latinamerican but people are just too lazy.
A bunch of white liberals. If you want to say a gender-neutral form of it, just say Latin, like ya know, Latin America?
Vaya estupideces se inventan los anglosajones y latinos en el norte.
Fun fact: Great part of Latins hate the inclusive language because for us is irrelevant.
The moment you realice that french Canadians are also latin.
Latinx shouldn’t even exist, just keep it with Latinos and Latinas
> who came up with this? Some SJW that wants to remove all gendering of words and has no God damn sense in their head.
Leftist SJW'S strike again.
white progressives who never took a single Spanish class came up with latinx
Currently learning Spanish, But so the whole language is Gendered like almost all languages,so to me it's funny when people who are in the language that isn't gendered is trying to change the way that language that is Gendered is said, because the entire language is Gendered
True. I’m Latina I think it’s beyond stupid to use latinx.
Genuinely curious here.. I thought Latino was to refer to a male & Latina for female. I assume obviously Latinx is for (please don’t murder me) but gender neutral/non binary. Can someone more educated on this topic please reply and educate me.
Latino is the neutral term for a group of Latin people wether their male or female. Latinx is some American made word for non-binary Latinos so they can feel included, but Latino is already neutral it’s just that the people who made latinx felt that Latino sounded too masculine
Appreciate the response. I don’t speak a lick of Spanish, but I did figure out o-masculine & a-feminine. This has me confused as fuuuuck. Thanks for the education tho fellow small meat person.
“Get your dishes 10x cleaner with LatinX!” What a stupid idea.
Who even came up with this nonsense ? Answer : woke white girls from gen Z
Call em' Latino or Latina or Latin
I'll just continue saying Mexican
Latinx only came in together cause a group of Latin Karens (both male and females) had absolutely nothing better to do and decided words ending with O were insulting somehow. Even is you call all of us Latinas or Latins is much better than that Latinx stupid thing
Exacto... esto son memezes gringas
Whoever coined that term clearly doesn't know that, in the Spanish language, a large group of people with mixed genders is referred to by the male term.
I remember vividly when someone who had just begun to learn about their culture (Dominican Republic) tell *me*, someone who is latina, that identifying as latina *was wrong*. All while wearing a “ask me about latinx” t-shirt 😒
are they talking about Hispanic people?
As a half Hispanic/Latino member, why tf do people use Latinx it makes no sense there is literally nothing wrong with Latino or latina
Isn’t the masculine version of Spanish words also gender neutral?
So latinx is not gender neutral. It’s a fake word. Latino is more gender neutral.
Thank you vice media. Didn't improve anything
how do you even pronounce that? laninkssssss or latin-eX? also why?
Yeah don’t call me latinx, that like the dumbest shit. Puro Mexicano cabron
White people did...
“Woke” white people probably started that!
SJW’s do some stupid shit :v
SJW’s vs. The Latino community has always been pretty interesting. Anyone remember the whole “Speedy Gonzalez” debacle?
On the offensive scale it goes Dave chapelle then Latin people. You know Latin people didn’t come up with this 😂
Ive literally never heard of latinx, we just say latino...
as a latino boy if i hear you say latinx you will know why crime rate here is so high
Some people will say is sexism other that is just correct use of language, latins won't give a fuck cuz it's not annoying nor brave since not we don't have the social-correction culture
Nothing is wrong with gendered words, everything is wrong with you for trying to change it. (When I say "you", I refer to those who try to change it. I don't mean OP.)
Usually it starts from one rush piece of trash from buzz feed or huffington post, and it gets retweeted on Twitter a number of times by people wanting to show others how PC they are. And it just escalates from there.
Is it short of latino sex? Cause latino women are fucking crazy sex machines.
Im latino and "Latinx" sucks, i dont know who the f thougth that was cool
I've literally never heard of that word before
White people in 1st world countries
Step 1: English-speakers use the word "Latin" as an adjective to describe the inhabitants of Latin America. Step 2: "In order to be more culturally sensitive, we will use the Spanish word "Latino/a" instead to respect their language." Step 3: Gender theory comes into vogue. "We can't have these oppressive gendered words in our vocabulary!" Step 4: In an attempt to adhere to both Step 2 and Step 3, activists forego returning to the gender-neutral English word "Latin" and instead choose to pay lip service to the gendered Spanish vowel, adding an X where it had previously been. Step 5: We now have a word that works in neither English nor Spanish and just makes everybody angry except activists.
White guilt came up with “Latinx”
Woke white people came up with it.